11–17 October 2009: Featured poet online at Daily Haiku (click to see the first of seven poems).

13 September 2009: One of four featured readers at the 20th Anniversary Two Autumns reading, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. (I also read at the first reading in 1990). See photos. A book collecting poems by each of the four readers, titled My Neighbor, was published for this event, and a video was also recorded.

5–9 August 2009:Haiku North America conference, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (two featured readings, welcome address, and numerous presentations, including on the American Haiku Archives and “Fuyoh Observations: Seven Haiku Lessons We Can Learn From Japan”; see photos in album 1, album 2, and album 3). See also the Ottawa Citizen article (features an interview with me) about this conference.

24–26 July, 2009: Gabriola Haiku Weekend, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, at Drumbeg House on Saturday and Gabriola Commons on Sunday (presentation on “Cracking You Open: The Joy of Haiku”).

7 May 2009: Teaching haiku to three separate fourth-grade classes at Cherry Crest Elementary School in Bellevue, Washington (complete with vinegar and baking soda to illustrate the way combining two parts in a haiku creates magic!)

18 April 2009: Field’s EndWriters’ Conference, at the beautiful Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. “Using Haiku to Improve Other Writing” workshop with PowerPoint presentation. Also led a general poetry workshop with Lana Hechtman Ayers, and was featured poet reading with fiction writer Jim Lynch and the Grammar Girl herself, Mignon Fogarty.

6–8 March 2009:Haiku Society of America national meeting, Clark Honors College Library, Chapman Hall, University of Oregon (presentation on the American Haiku Archives and a workshop on “A Moment’s Notice: Taming Time in Haiku”).